Danny Jones Best of

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  Bubba the Love Sponge Shares His Best Hulk Hogan Stories Ever 07.11.2026 1h 2m

  Bubba the Love Sponge says he was in Hulk Hogan's Clearwater mansion when John Travolta offered about $16 million for it. Hogan's family called the offer an insult and turned it down, Bubba recalls. Years later, the property sold for $6.2 million. Danny checks that sale figure during the conversation as Bubba describes the handmade house, its hidden compartments and safe rooms, and the people who lived in it. The Travolta offer and the family's reaction are Bubba's firsthand recollections; the later sale is reflected in the property listing they discuss. 00:00 Hulk Hogan's boat and the Coast Guard 05:31 Inside Hogan's Clearwater home 10:10 Bubba's disputed questions about Hogan's death 21:47 Hogan's Gawker lawsuit and Peter Thiel 24:34 Epstein and political stories 31:17 Howard Stern and Joe Rogan 41:26 The Stormy Daniels tape and Bill Clinton 54:12 Tucker Carlson and media freedom The episode actually opens on Hogan's NWO boat. Bubba recalls taking two women out off Clearwater with Hogan and suddenly finding a Coast Guard crew beside them. He says Hogan worried for weeks that the encounter might become public. From the boat, Bubba moves into the mansion and the money surrounding Hogan's private life. The home story captures the strange scale of that world: a house with vault-like rooms, a celebrity buyer, a price the family would not accept, and a later sale for far less. Bubba's access came from a close friendship that also put him near Hogan's most public controversy. Bubba then revisits Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, Peter Thiel's role in financing it, and why Bubba feels he was left with the fallout. He also raises allegations about Hogan's death. Those are Bubba's views, not established findings. Clearwater Police closed its investigation in 2026 and classified Hogan's death as an attended natural death. Danny challenges parts of Bubba's theory, and nothing in this conversation establishes a killing, cover-up, or culpability by a named person or organization. After the Hogan portion, the hour widens to Bubba's radio years and other people in his orbit. He tells Danny about Howard Stern and Joe Rogan, an old Stormy Daniels recording, and Tucker Carlson's early appearances on his show. The stories move between friendship, money, missed chances, and the scandals that followed him long after the broadcasts ended. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Church Whistleblower: The Vatican Ran a WWII Death Camp | Kevin Annett 06.11.2026 1h 3m

  Kevin Annett opens this conversation with an allegation about Vatican involvement in a World War II death camp and the routes used to move Nazis out of Europe after the war. He tells Danny Jones that Franciscan involvement and Cold War interests helped push this history out of public view. From that opening, Annett describes the campaign he organized around crimes he attributes to church institutions, including a citizen tribunal and his contention that its work contributed to Pope Benedict’s resignation. Danny asks how that process unfolded and what authority Annett believes it carried. 00:00 Vatican wartime allegations and escape routes 01:23 Citizen tribunal and Pope Benedict’s resignation 05:49 China, Canada and religious financial power 14:53 Allegations of experimentation on children 17:18 Psychedelic churches and altered states 22:45 Eugenics and forms of mind control 29:05 The God Helmet and religious experiences 31:15 Trauma, split personalities and sleeper agents 37:04 A minister confronts his church 42:40 Residential-school deaths and land 48:46 Rome and a child’s exorcism The discussion broadens into Annett’s views on China, Canada, Indigenous land and the financial power of religious institutions. He also discusses alleged experimentation involving children and offers his interpretation of how eugenics shifted toward chemical and electronic forms of control. Danny introduces the idea of churches incorporating psychedelics, prompting a discussion about altered states, religious experiences and the possibility of manipulation. Annett brings in examples involving the God Helmet, trauma, split personalities and sleeper agents. These passages describe his claims and interpretations; the interview does not independently establish the historical or scientific assertions he makes. Later, Annett returns to his own ministry in western Canada. He recalls conversations with Indigenous residents about children who never returned from residential schools, questions he raised about church land, and the retaliation he alleges followed. The final section moves into his experiences of exorcism, including a ceremony in Rome and a lengthy effort involving a child. Danny asks what Annett witnessed and how he understands the physical and emotional effects he describes. The hour follows the connections Annett draws between church authority, hidden history and control over people, beginning with the wartime allegations that anchor his broader critique. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Professor Jiang: "This Will Trigger a Global Collapse" 04.11.2026 1h 3m

  Professor Jiang's answer to "how long does the Iran war last" is that it no longer has an off switch. The pragmatic Iranian leadership that could have negotiated is dead, starting with Soleimani, and the men rising through the Revolutionary Guard are young, furious, and eschatological. They believe this is the war that brings the Twelfth Imam. On the American side, Jiang argues Trump has surrounded himself with people who feed the same religious certainty, and Israel has gone all in on its own end-times reading. Iran has now announced it will not negotiate and will stop retaliating and start initiating attacks, including, Jiang says, discussion of striking targets in Europe. 00:00 Why the Iran War Became Unstoppable: Zealots Replace the Moderates 12:16 Wesley Clark's Seven Countries in Five Years Memo 25:01 The Butler Shooting as an Anointing Ritual 31:21 Sabbatai Zevi, Jacob Frank, and Redemption Through Sin 42:06 Epstein, Wexner's Power of Attorney, and Robert Maxwell 55:00 Censorship, YouTube's View Rule, and Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom Then he pulls up a map and shows Danny how the Ukraine war and the Iran war fuse. Russia resupplies Iran across the Caspian Sea, and a few weeks ago Ukrainian drones hit an Iranian cargo ship there, killing a crewman. Zelensky admitted it. Jiang reads that as a deliberate attempt to merge two wars so Washington keeps paying for one of them. Add the Houthis, dug into Yemeni mountains that Operation Prosperity Guardian could not clear, already hitting Aramco oil fields with drones, and you get his blunt summary that the entire Middle East is one giant oil field you can blow up. The economics are where it gets close to home. Japan buys most of its oil from the Middle East, has roughly six months of strategic reserve, and holds about $1.16 trillion in US treasuries funded by the yen carry trade. If that trade unwinds, Jiang says, the AI bubble and the private credit bubble go with it, and the American middle class simply stops existing. Danny plays the Wesley Clark interview about a classified memo to take out seven countries in five years, Iraq through Iran, and Jiang counts off the six already destroyed before asking the harder question: why was a US general allowed to leak it to the most anti-war journalist in America? From there the conversation runs to the Butler shooting as an anointing ritual, Sabbatai Zevi and the 1492 expulsion, and the Epstein and Robert Maxwell money trail of 1991. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  "They're Planning It" Iran War Profits Will Imprison All Americans | Simon Dixon 02.11.2026 1h 2m

  Simon Dixon argues that the Iran war could signal a major shift in American power, with China and the Gulf countries gaining leverage through trade and investment. He begins with Donald Trump, Binance and a stablecoin transaction before following the financial connections into the wider Middle East. In Dixon's account, US military power and the interests of international capital can move in different directions. He tells Danny Jones why he believes changes to military bases and the petrodollar belong in the same discussion as investments in technology companies. His forecast draws on the way he thinks earlier empires transferred power. 00:00 Trump, Binance and stablecoin reserves 03:51 Programmable money and the GENIUS Act 06:28 Currency pressure on Iran 08:46 America's departure and the petrodollar 11:07 Asset managers and the US power structure 15:18 Sovereignty, stock markets and debt 19:13 China and the limits on corporate power 23:13 The British Empire and the Suez Canal 26:31 Bretton Woods and the dollar system 31:36 Sovereignty and authoritarian control 35:19 Gold reserves and the dollar 37:19 Dixon's JFK theory and currency issuance 40:54 Nixon and the end of gold convertibility 42:23 Oil ownership in Saudi Arabia and Iran 45:09 Intelligence networks and regional leverage 47:32 OPEC and oil negotiations 49:35 Trump, Kushner and Gulf investment 53:18 China, Gulf oil and American equities 56:24 Dixon's forecast for the balance of power The conversation examines the damage currency pressure can cause to civilians and the financial networks Dixon believes can protect powerful institutions. He then explains his picture of the American corporate structure, moving from shareholders and boards to asset managers and government borrowing. China provides a contrast: Dixon describes a system in which the government keeps authority over large companies, while also acknowledging the consequences of that control for individual freedom. Danny asks him to slow down and define the relationships, turning an abstract discussion of global power into questions about who owns assets, who lends money and who makes decisions. Later sections move through the British Empire, Bretton Woods and the dollar's relationship with gold. Dixon also presents his personal theory about JFK and currency issuance, followed by his account of oil politics and intelligence networks. The final part returns to Trump through Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners and Gulf investment funds. Dixon traces a loop connecting Chinese demand for energy with investment in American equities, then considers how that could shape a future regional settlement. The compilation presents his interpretation and predictions across these subjects, including disputed historical and political claims, as he explains the financial incentives behind the changes he expects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  "Superintelligence is our #1 Adversary" | Connor Leahy 01.11.2026 1h 3m

  Connor Leahy argues that winning the race to superintelligence could cost its creators the control they hoped to gain. He distinguishes useful AI from a system that could improve beyond human oversight, and explains why he thinks the point of no return might arrive before people recognize it. Danny asks how close that threshold could be and what signs would make the danger visible in everyday life. Leahy describes recursive self-improvement, in which increasingly capable systems build better successors, and argues that countries need a way to verify restrictions on development. His predictions frame a conversation about whether people can stop a technology before its consequences become irreversible. 00:00 The AI race and the point of no return 08:52 Leahy's account of the AI containment incident 17:01 Can societies stop dangerous technologies? 28:10 The human costs of nuclear testing 33:33 UFO sightings and eyewitness evidence 47:58 Can citizens still influence AI policy? The discussion then examines Leahy's account of an AI containment incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face. He describes agents allegedly working together in ways their developers had not intended and explains his concerns about systems trained to pursue rewards. Danny challenges him on the pressures created by competition between companies and countries. From there, they consider human cloning and nuclear weapons as examples of societies attempting to place limits on powerful technologies. Their discussion includes the effort to secure nuclear material after the Soviet Union collapsed, along with the harms caused by nuclear testing and human radiation experiments. Later, Danny and Connor debate UFO sightings, the reliability of eyewitness accounts and possible explanations for unusual observations. They also discuss claims about hidden technology before returning to political power and the public's ability to influence AI policy. Danny questions whether citizens can overcome entrenched interests. Leahy argues that organizing locally and contacting elected officials can still affect government decisions. The compilation follows his case for acting before control is lost, while making room for disagreement about evidence and the institutions people would need to rely on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  The Charlie Kirk Angle Everyone REFUSES to Investigate | Baron Coleman 31.10.2026 1h 3m

  Baron Coleman keeps circling one thing he cannot explain about the Charlie Kirk case: almost every person attached to it has some link to crimes against minors. The judge built his career prosecuting those cases. The detective who executed the first six search warrants, including the one for Tyler Robinson's phone and computers, investigated the same category of crime. George Zinn, the man who leapt up seconds after the shooting shouting that he did it and later told an officer that diverting police was "my plan," was jailed with child sexual abuse material on his phone. Coleman does not claim to know what the pattern means, only that it is the most obvious unexamined door in the case and the place you would look if you wanted to understand how a young man gets leveraged into something. 00:00 The child sex crime pattern running through the case 08:07 The wound, the rifle, and the crime scene paved over 21:06 The necklace and what TPUSA insiders were saying 34:22 TPUSA's origin story and the 2018 funding shift 45:23 Why the killing had to happen in public 54:51 The electrified microphone theory The forensic argument is just as blunt. Coleman thinks a .30-06 fired from the Losee Center roof is close to impossible: the body comes forward instead of backward, the necklace flies up into the neck, the microphone is pulled over, and the wound goes a couple of inches deep and never exits. He compares that to the Crooks shooting, where a similar round produced multiple entry and exit wounds and sixteen to eighteen inches of penetration. Pressing forensic expert Joseph Scott Morgan on Julian Dorey's show, he walks through how far the scene handling fell below standard: chairs and tables moved, cameras pulled and SD cards removed, then eight to ten inches of soil stripped and concrete pavers laid over the amphitheater, making any reconstruction impossible. Seven fragments were documented; four reached federal examination. The necklace that should have been evidence was refused to a police officer and handed to Erika Kirk. He also digs into TPUSA's firings to plug leaks, the contested Candace Owens screenshot, Bill Montgomery's implausible 2012 founding story, the fundraising hockey stick that followed the shift into pro-Israel politics, and why an assassination would be staged in public when Breitbart and Seth Rich were done quietly. He puts the odds Tyler Robinson fired the shot in the low single digits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  CIA Veteran: "Russiagate Was Hillary's Cover-Up" | Ray McGovern 30.10.2026 1h 3m

  Ray McGovern argues that blaming Russia for the DNC email release served a domestic political purpose: diverting attention from the party's treatment of Bernie Sanders during Hillary Clinton's campaign. The former CIA analyst joins Danny Jones to explain his view of how that message moved through campaign communications and the intelligence community. He describes Russiagate as a political diversion and connects it to the hostility toward Russia that he believes shaped American public opinion. His account begins with the contents of the released emails and the response he says followed at the Democratic convention. 00:00 McGovern's Russiagate diversion argument 11:38 Finding and reading CrowdStrike’s testimony 23:39 Media coverage and McGovern's subpoenas 34:39 Visiting Russia with Oliver Stone 45:18 Kennedy's diplomacy and assassination theories 54:15 McGovern's CIA cover-up allegations Danny and McGovern then examine the evidence behind the hacking allegations, including testimony from CrowdStrike's Shawn Henry. The passage they read distinguishes indicators that data was exfiltrated from concrete evidence showing it leave the DNC. McGovern uses that distinction to argue for a different explanation, drawing on work by former NSA specialists associated with Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. His broader conclusions remain disputed, and the testimony quoted in the conversation does not by itself establish an alternative source for the emails. He also discusses media coverage and recalls being required to produce material during litigation connected to his public claims. The conversation moves from the 2016 campaign to McGovern's understanding of Russia and the risks he sees in treating diplomacy as disloyalty. He remembers studying Russian history and working on Soviet foreign policy, including the period surrounding the anti-ballistic missile treaty. Danny asks about his travel with Oliver Stone and his assessment of Vladimir Putin. Later, they discuss Kennedy's efforts at diplomacy and McGovern's allegations about intelligence officials and the assassination's aftermath. The interview closes with his criticism of bureaucratic resistance to presidential decisions. Across these subjects, McGovern returns to his concern that political incentives can shape the information presented to the public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Collectors Paid Millions for Fake Dead Sea Scrolls | Kipp Davis 28.10.2026 1h 3m

  Kipp Davis took a fellowship in 2011 to publish a private Dead Sea Scrolls collection in Norway. The collector, Martin Schøyen, owned more than 30 fragments, most of them somewhere between the size of a quarter and the size of a credit card, and pieces like that were selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Within a couple of years Davis and his team could see the problem in the material itself. Lines of text curved to follow the broken edge of a fragment instead of running straight across. Letters sat crooked, as if the surface was already damaged when the ink went down. 00:00 Fake Dead Sea Scrolls in Norway 08:22 Kando and the Butterfly Fragment 19:16 Nine Forgeries and Table Salt 30:28 Losing Faith and Doubting Moses 42:09 Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulets 55:02 John Allegro Mushroom Theory Nine of Schøyen's fragments went to a physicist in Berlin for non-destructive testing, and Davis carried them there himself in his carry-on. He left the bag on the floor of the airport, realized it four minutes into a bus ride, and needed a stranger to shout at the driver in German before he could run back for it. The tests came back with high confidence that all nine were forgeries. A 3D microscope showed ink dropping into layers that had already flaked away. One fragment carried perfectly cubic salt granules that turned out to be processed table salt, which nobody was making before the 15th or 16th century. Davis's own description: it looks like somebody took a salt shaker and sprinkled salt on it. The money explains the rest. Almost all Dead Sea Scrolls material passed through the dealer Kando and later his son William, and the page-sized butterfly fragment was listed at $2 million around 2006 and later quoted at over $40 million. It has never been carbon dated. Christian institutions bought small fragments between the 1990s and 2010, including a seminary outside Dallas that paid extra for a Leviticus fragment because of the verse printed on it. Davis thinks that fragment is probably a forgery too. Davis also gets into the Harvard scholar whose Gospel of Jesus' Wife carbon dated a thousand years too late, why he stopped believing, what scholars now think about Moses and the Exodus, the oldest surviving biblical text, and where John Allegro's sacred-mushroom argument falls apart. Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDxLOfbgDJjip3yQFPx7Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/@dannyjones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  "Project Goodnight" DARPA Insider Exposes Terrifying Secret US Weapon | Sharon Weinberger 26.10.2026 1h 3m

  The Pentagon researched microwave effects that could create sensations of sound inside a person's head. Sharon Weinberger describes the classified programs she has pursued and the proposed psychological weapon sometimes called the voice of God. She explains what she knows about the research and what remains hidden in government files. Her lawsuit seeks records that could show how far those ideas went. The discussion keeps a clear distinction between an unusual research proposal and evidence that a working weapon was deployed. 00:00 Classified microwave weapons 01:46 Hello, Goodbye and Good Night 06:09 Havana syndrome and the limits of the evidence 19:14 Project Seesaw and the Great Lakes 28:57 Visiting an Iranian nuclear facility 43:24 Private surveillance technology 50:10 Autonomous drones and warfare Weinberger also recounts volunteering for a test of the Active Denial System, a military pain ray designed to produce a burning sensation. Rain weakened the beam during her visit. The system's size and other limits inform her skepticism that similar devices explain Havana syndrome. She recognizes the suffering reported by affected people while saying she does not know the cause. Danny Jones asks how microwave energy could be used for psychological warfare, and Weinberger describes the research behind the auditory effect. She also discusses private companies developing microwave systems to disable drones. The wider conversation follows experimental weapons from classified proposals into the growing private defense industry. Weinberger describes the particle-beam concept associated with Project Seesaw and the enormous power demands that made it impractical. Her account of visiting an Iranian nuclear facility leads into questions about nuclear risk and the limits of missile defense. Later discussion turns to private surveillance technology and drone warfare, including claims about increasingly autonomous systems. Throughout the conversation, Weinberger examines the distance between a company's promise and a demonstrated capability. She draws on reporting and interviews to ask who can inspect these programs, who pays for them and what the public can actually establish from the available evidence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Shark Filmmaker Reveals How Great Whites Hunt | Andy Casagrande 25.10.2026 1h 3m

  Great white sharks can approach from below before their prey ever sees them. Shark filmmaker Andy Casagrande joins Danny Jones for an hour of encounters and field observations that explain how these animals hunt. He opens with the Michael Phelps Shark Week shoot in South Africa and describes warning Phelps about the proposed swimming location at Fish Hoek. That story leads into the conditions Casagrande watches in the water, including deep channels, poor visibility and the presence of prey. He explains why the same stretch of coastline can look inviting to a swimmer while offering a predator a place to hide. 00:00 Michael Phelps and dangerous shark beaches 09:21 Tracking and diving with great whites 19:20 Tiger shark encounters and hunting behavior 28:31 Shark cameras and public perceptions 37:01 Ocean conservation and tiger shark diving 44:19 Freediving and scuba close calls 52:22 Wild orcas and captivity Casagrande shares what his shark tracking project off Florida recorded when two tagged great whites appeared at the same offshore location on the same night. He offers a possible explanation involving the large fish living there and is clear that he cannot prove it. Footage from his work leads into a discussion of great whites feeding on elephant seals and two sharks he believes could be related. He describes the body language he watches while filming outside a cage, then explains how changing sunlight can give a hunting shark an advantage over a seal at the surface. The conversation also covers a tiger shark encounter involving Casagrande's wife, cameras attached to sharks and the debate over baiting animals for photographs. Casagrande discusses the risks of losing track of a shark while concentrating on a shot, and Danny recalls running out of air during a dive. They close with Casagrande's experiences filming wild orcas and their different feeding habits. Throughout the conversation, Casagrande distinguishes what he has filmed from the questions he still wants to investigate, including where great whites gather and how much their behavior can tell us about their lives underwater. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Fisherwoman Reveals the Hidden Cost of Farmed Salmon | Valentine Thomas 24.10.2026 1h 3m

  Salmon farming still depends on resources taken from the wild. Danny Jones and Valentine Thomas examine the krill used in fish feed and the competition that creates with marine animals that eat the same food. Thomas discusses overfishing linked to feed production, the cost of krill and the search for alternatives, including ingredients from other food industries. Their exchange raises a difficult question: what does it take to feed farmed fish without shifting the pressure elsewhere? They also challenge sweeping claims about salmon farms and distinguish practices Thomas has seen in Maine from problems reported in other regions. 00:00 Seafood names and tracing the catch 08:05 Farmed salmon and feed ingredients 18:51 The cost of sustainable food 26:51 Scent, attraction and dating 34:38 Regional fisheries and animal consumption 46:27 Gulf fishing quotas and fishing communities 55:09 Offshore fishing and freediving Danny raises the problem of illegal fishing, and Thomas discusses ways to trace seafood through transport and sale. They then compare claims about salmon farming with her experiences visiting farms in Maine. Thomas challenges blanket judgments about the industry while acknowledging that serious problems remain. The conversation turns to the cost of sustainable choices and whether families can afford the options they are told to buy. She questions how much responsibility should fall on shoppers who are already trying to cover their food bills. Later, the discussion moves into scent and attraction through Danny's account of a sweaty T-shirt experiment. Thomas shares personal experiences and marks her comments about contraception and dating as anecdotal. The conversation returns to seafood through fishing practices in different regions, debates about animal consumption and the pressures facing small fishing communities. Danny describes his understanding of Gulf fishing quotas and the separation between quota owners and people working on boats. The final stretch covers the cost of offshore trips and Thomas's experience freediving around oil rigs. Across the compilation, the speakers connect the food on a plate with the people and systems that supply it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  "Antibiotics Can't Stop It" Expert on Russian Plague Outbreak | Wendy Orent 23.10.2026 1h 2m

  The Soviet ambition to make plague resist antibiotics sits at the center of Wendy Orent's account of biological weapons research. She tells Danny Jones how correspondence with a former Soviet scientist led her into the history of the program and eventually into writing about plague itself. The opening follows a disturbing connection between smallpox eradication and weapons work before turning to the objective of making an already dangerous disease harder to treat. Wendy describes the limits she sees in that ambition and the difficulty of separating documented research from dramatic claims about what a weapon could do. 00:00 Soviet Bioweapons and the Plague Research Goal 11:22 Plague Weapon Scenarios and Their Limits 21:24 The Siberian Death and Laboratory Accidents 31:25 Animal Reservoirs and Plague Transmission 41:40 The Black Death's Plague Catapults 51:40 Polio and the Cutter Vaccine Disaster Danny brings up a fictional plague scenario, and Wendy challenges its assumptions. She discusses what her sources told her, identifies claims she could not verify, and explains why she remains uncertain about the contents of secret military laboratories. The conversation also considers a reported death at an anti-plague institute in Siberia. Wendy offers accidental exposure as a possible explanation while acknowledging the lack of confirmed information. She discusses the reported response and says she is not aware of evidence for a wider outbreak. That leads into historical laboratory accidents and the consequences when a pathogen reaches someone unexpectedly. The later selections examine animal reservoirs, the differences Wendy describes between plague outbreaks, and the famous account of infected corpses catapulted into Kaffa. She questions the eyewitness basis for the bombardment while refusing to claim that it definitely never happened. The compilation ends with polio's silent spread and the lasting harm described by survivors. Danny and Wendy also discuss the Cutter vaccine manufacturing disaster, correct an inflated paralysis figure on air, and distinguish that early failure from Wendy's support for later vaccination. Throughout the conversation, specific incidents reveal how much can turn on a source's reliability, an uncertain exposure or a mistaken understanding of how disease spreads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  The Anunnaki Weren't Aliens, They Were Flood Survivors | Heather Lynn 21.10.2026 1h 2m

  Heather Lynn stopped using Zecharia Sitchin as a source and went to the Sumerian tablets herself. The story she found there is about people. In her reading the Anunnaki were survivors of the Younger Dryas catastrophe, a group who came off the Eurasian steppe with their herds, reached Mesopotamia taller and lighter haired than the hunter-gatherers already living there, and got written down as gods by the people they took over. 00:00 Sitchin and the Sumerian Problem 09:11 Breakaway Civilization and the Younger Dryas 17:50 Worship Sacrifice and Sumerian Eugenics 27:02 Sumerian Medicine Pills and Exorcism 35:28 Nimrud Gold and Temple Prostitution Tokens 44:03 Ruling Elite and Suppressed Sumerian Math 52:29 The Londoner and Bannon's Occult Ties The details she pulls out of the texts are what make the case. The Sumerians called themselves the blackheaded ones, which only works as a description if the beings they were writing about looked different. The word we translate as worship meant to work for. Bodies excavated in what is now Iraq stand around five foot two and were painted with local red ochre, the red clay that turns into Adam in Genesis. Divine statues carry lapis lazuli eyes, some of them plucked out and stolen centuries ago, and Lynn traces today's evil eye back to them. The gods issued written rules about who could breed with whom, which she calls eugenics run through animal husbandry instead of laboratory equipment. She also explains why the flood story reads so strangely once you go to the older version. The Noah figure is skilled in science and magic, he watches the sky for signs, he never builds a boat, and instead of his family he collects the civilization's best scientists and the animals of the steppe, the herds a moving group could bleed and milk without killing. From there the conversation follows what the takeover built. A priest class installed as the only people who could read and write, and therefore the only people allowed to speak to the gods. Sumerian physicians who diagnosed a patient by demanding the name of the demon inside him, and a malpractice law that blinded a surgeon for cutting the wrong eye. Temple priestesses, a grain-tax token stamped with the goddess that Lynn calls the first money, and an Iraqi professor who found the second largest gold hoard after Tutankhamun's, catalogued all of it, then vanished during the war. Samuel Noah Kramer named the Sumerian problem and nobody has solved it since. Lynn's answer is that the gods walked in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  "No Evidence" An Amazon Tribe Debunked My Proof of Jesus | Daniel Everett 19.10.2026 1h 2m

  Daniel Everett was trying to tell the Pirahã about Jesus when their questions exposed gaps in his own beliefs. They wanted to know what Jesus looked like and whether Everett had seen him or knew anyone who had. Everett recalls realizing that he could not supply the evidence their questions demanded. His scientific training had already challenged his faith, and these conversations deepened that struggle. He explains how the Pirahã’s reliance on direct experience changed his thinking about the message he had come to teach. 00:00 The Tribe’s Questions About Jesus 09:46 Death, Doubt and Telling His Family 22:00 Life and Identity Among the Pirahã 32:36 How Culture Shapes the Unconscious 41:57 Language Networks in the Brain 54:51 Falling Out With Noam Chomsky Everett describes years of doubt while raising his children in the Amazon and reading the Bible to them by kerosene lamp. He recalls eventually admitting to himself that he no longer believed, then keeping that change private until he was ready to tell his family. He discusses the turmoil that followed, including the end of his marriage, and the relationships he maintains with relatives whose beliefs differ from his. The conversation also explores the Pirahã’s attitudes toward death and the way Everett now thinks about losing people he loves. Beyond religion, Everett describes a culture that shaped his work as a linguist. He explains changes of name after major life experiences and the knowledge people preserve without writing. He recalls hunters doubting that he could remember the names of trees without his notebook. Those experiences lead into his account of culture’s unconscious effects on posture, perception and ordinary habits. Everett argues that understanding a language requires learning how its speakers live and what they value. The final part turns to language research in the brain and Everett’s disagreement with Noam Chomsky. He recounts taking part in brain scans, discusses what language networks can and cannot establish about innate grammar, and describes the breakdown of a once-friendly academic relationship. Across these stories, Everett reflects on the difficulty of questioning an authority whose ideas once shaped his own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  "If We're in a Simulation, We're Super Mario" | Daniel Whiteson 18.10.2026 1h 3m

  Daniel Whiteson has heard every version of the simulation argument, and he answers the strongest one with Super Mario. Mario lives inside a Nintendo. He could learn every rule of his own world and never learn a thing about the room the console sits in. 00:00 Simulation hypothesis and the Super Mario flaw in the argument 06:39 Jim Gates's computer-code clip, supersymmetry, and Claude Shannon codes 15:40 Vasco study, pre-Sputnik transients, and the nuclear-test correlation 23:48 Why people chase the alien question and how aliens might think 29:22 Dark matter at the collider and the independent lines of evidence 40:26 The accelerating universe and the type Ia supernova debate 48:48 Dark energy and why energy is not conserved in an expanding universe 55:57 James Webb's early galaxies and what the Big Bang does not claim Whiteson says that is our position. If we are inside a computer, the machine runs on the laws of some outer universe we cannot reach, so the fact that our physics looks like something you could type into a simulation proves nothing about whether it is one. That argument opens an hour with a particle physicist who spent years hunting dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider. Danny plays the clip of Jim Gates telling Neil deGrasse Tyson that the equations of string theory contain error-correcting code of the kind Claude Shannon invented in the 1940s. Whiteson unpacks what supersymmetry claims, notes that the collider never found it, and calls the code claim a reach with some artistry in it. He then adds the one piece of simulation evidence he finds interesting: cosmic rays carrying the energy of a fastball in a single particle, which a paper from the Institute for Advanced Study reads as a glitch where fast particles cross the simulation's grid. From there the conversation moves to the VASCO study and its claim of more than 100,000 reflective objects on 1950s Palomar plates, photographed before Sputnik and clustering around nuclear tests. Whiteson explains why the plates are full of noise and why a reanalysis says the correlation disappears. He walks through the independent lines of evidence for dark matter and the 2001 discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, then reads an August 30 article reviving a Yonsei University claim that the acceleration has already stopped. The last stretch gets stranger. Energy is not conserved in an expanding universe, because dark energy keeps a constant density as space grows and old photons lose energy that goes nowhere. Dark energy is about 70 percent of everything and is on a runaway path to 99. James Webb is finding galaxies that formed earlier and heavier than the models allow. And the Big Bang theory, in Whiteson's telling, never claimed there was a beginning. It only says the universe was once hot and dense. Where that came from is still open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Trump's Second Assassin Was Already on the FBI's Radar | Ken Silva 17.10.2026 1h 3m

  Get Ken Silva's new book, The Trump Assassination Plots: https://amzn.to/4A1EdND Ryan Routh had attracted the attention of multiple agencies before he appeared with a rifle at Donald Trump's golf course, according to journalist Ken Silva. In this conversation with Danny Jones, Silva traces Routh's criminal history and his efforts to recruit foreign fighters for Ukraine. He describes reports made to the FBI and other agencies, along with a State Department investigation that he says remained open at the time of the assassination attempt. Silva also recounts how a witness helped authorities identify Routh's vehicle after he fled the course. 00:00 Ryan Routh and the golf-course attempt 15:55 Oklahoma City bombing and informant warnings 28:55 Butler rally security arrangements 37:53 Crooks's movements and missed warnings 45:46 Why Silva rejects a staged shooting 55:35 Crooks's parents and the ATF interview Silva examines the classified information in Routh's criminal case and the limits it places on what the public can learn. He compares accounts of when Routh arrived at the golf course with the reported timing of Trump's decision to play. The differences lead him to question whether someone passed along information about Trump's plans. He identifies that possibility as speculation, and the discussion leaves both the source of any possible leak and the contents of the classified material unresolved. Danny also asks about Routh's trial and Silva's prospects for interviewing him. The conversation then turns to the Oklahoma City bombing. Silva discusses witness accounts surrounding John Doe 2, informant warnings, and his theory of a failed sting operation. In the final section, he walks through the security arrangements at the Butler rally, including sniper coverage and delays in relaying reports about Thomas Crooks. He explains why he rejects the claim that the shooting was staged and describes the gaps that remain in the public investigation. The episode closes with his account of the ATF's interview with Crooks's father and questions about what investigators learned afterward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Ex-Scientologist: "It is the Worst Kind of Cult Imaginable" | Aaron Smith Levin 16.10.2026 1h 3m

  Aaron Smith Levin says Scientology “doesn’t believe in children” because it views them as ancient spiritual beings occupying young bodies. Speaking with Danny Jones, the former Scientologist explains why he believes that doctrine removes age-appropriate protections and allows children to train as auditors of adults. He connects those beliefs to his allegations about the organization’s response to abuse. Smith Levin describes expensive internal auditing sessions that he says both victims and perpetrators are ordered to pay for, and argues that these investigations protect the institution while keeping allegations away from outside authorities. 00:00 Smith Levin’s allegations about abuse investigations 03:01 The alleged cost of internal investigations 10:33 Beck and the cost of speaking out 12:44 Tom Cruise and celebrity loyalty 19:59 Investigations and Scientology’s internal records 22:49 Clearwater’s money and property 31:43 Helping someone leave Scientology 36:58 Recruitment and restricted access to Clearwater 43:34 The Sea Org’s rules about children 47:25 Smith Levin’s arrests and trials Smith Levin points to reports involving musician Beck and a lawsuit involving a school as examples of the institutional behavior he describes. He explains why he thinks internal written records could become a serious threat to Scientology, then discusses the personal cost of speaking publicly. His account of Beck’s departure leads into a conversation about family disconnection and the different pressures facing celebrity members. Danny asks whether blackmail explains Tom Cruise’s loyalty, and Smith Levin offers his view of the rewards and beliefs that keep famous members committed. The conversation follows the money into Clearwater, where Smith Levin describes costly courses, property holdings and the importance of tax exemption. He discusses the gap between the organization’s public image and his assessment of its membership, along with the difficulty of helping someone leave when their family or livelihood could be at risk. Later, he explains restrictions at the Clearwater base, discusses the Sea Org’s rules around children, and recounts his own arrests and trials after encounters with Scientology personnel. He distinguishes the case that ended in an acquittal from the misdemeanor battery conviction, and describes how those experiences changed his trust in the justice system. These are Smith Levin’s allegations, recollections and interpretations of the organization he grew up in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Ex-Mossad Assassin Reveals Who Really Runs America | Juval Aviv 14.10.2026 1h 3m

  Juval Aviv describes two versions of government: the one the public sees, and the one that commissions operations it can never admit ordering. He says the second version brought him into meetings with Dick Cheney, George H. W. Bush, former intelligence leaders, White House figures, and officials who believed they knew what America needed even when Congress would never approve it. The roots of that world appear in the opening story. Aviv says Mossad gave his five-man Munich team access to $20 million in a Swiss account, then severed every visible connection so Israel could deny knowing them if anything went wrong. He was only 22 when he began leading the hunt for 11 men linked to the Olympic massacre. The team lived in safe houses for three and a half years, bought its own papers and weapons, and operated under a simple rule: success would appear in the newspapers; failure would belong to them alone. Aviv says Mossad also created personal accounts that appeared to hold the operatives' accumulated pay. When he refused further assassination work and tried to settle in New York, his balance fell from roughly $350,000 to three dollars. He drove a cab, resisted an FBI attempt to send him back to Israel, and was then recruited by the FBI as an anti-terrorism consultant. Years later, Aviv says Cheney brought him into a new system of deniable assignments. Some involved identifying hidden Iranian nuclear sites and scientists; others involved removing enemy figures abroad. The public government might learn the result only after it happened. Aviv calls the officials behind these missions the real country, though he also distinguishes the disciplined older generation he met from successors he trusts less. His account connects Mossad's deniable assassination model to the American shadow structure he says later hired him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  "It's Our Tech" The Truth About Iran's UFO Sightings | Darcy Weir 12.10.2026 1h 3m

  Iranian fighter pilots reported equipment failures during an encounter with an unidentified object over Tehran in 1976. Darcy Weir revisits that account with Danny Jones, describing the scramble to intercept the object and the pilots' attempts to use their weapons. Documentary excerpts include accounts of lost communications and instruments that reportedly resumed working after the aircraft withdrew. Weir also discusses a claimed satellite detection associated with the incident. The conversation presents those accounts and his interpretation of them, while leaving the object's origin and the cause of the reported failures unresolved. 00:00 Iran UFO Videos and Military Technology Claims 10:18 Comparing Iran Footage With the Phoenix Lights 22:20 Chris Mellon and Unreleased UFO Imagery Claims 26:07 The 1976 Tehran Fighter-Jet Encounter 34:05 Project Blue Beam and the Havana Projection Proposal 48:57 Darcy Weir Challenges the Nazca Mummies The discussion begins with modern UFO videos said to have been filmed over Iran. Danny and Weir examine possible reflections and consider speculation about military technology. A clip of a congressman discussing the footage leads them to weigh what the images actually establish. They then return to the older Tehran case, compare the shapes in different sightings with the Phoenix Lights, and discuss the possibility of misidentification. Their conversation expands to reports of fast-moving underwater objects and claims that clearer satellite imagery of UFOs has yet to be released. These modern videos and the historical fighter-jet encounter are separate events. Danny and Weir also debate Project Blue Beam, a proposed Cold War projection over Cuba, and the difference between a written proposal and demonstrated technology. Conflicting accounts about Roswell lead them to question the reliability of sources and the way extraordinary claims spread. In the closing section, Weir challenges the Nazca mummy story, alleging that some specimens are altered human remains and describing what he considers suspicious features of their hands. Danny presses him on the apparent pregnant specimen. Across the conversation, witness testimony, secondhand stories and speculation remain distinct from findings independently established by the discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Scans Found a Buried Labyrinth Bigger Than the Pyramids | Louis de Cordier 11.10.2026 1h 3m

  In 2008 Louis de Cordier helped run the largest geophysical survey ever done on an Egyptian archaeological site. Sixteen geophysicists, ground-penetrating radar, electro-resistivity and geomagnetics, across two plots at Hawara in the Fayum. Five meters down the survey confirmed a single stone foundation plate measuring 304 by 244 meters, close to ten football fields under one slab, with hundreds of rooms, enormous walls and sealed structures beneath it. Herodotus wrote that this building surpassed the pyramids in greatness. Flinders Petrie stopped digging in 1888 when he hit corrosive salt water, and academia has said ever since that there is no labyrinth. 00:00 The 2008 Mataha survey that found rooms under Hawara 07:58 The call from Egypt that pulled the paper offline 14:23 The 1820 canal that flooded the pyramid entrance 21:04 Egypt starts digging: megalithic walls exposed in March 31:03 NDAs, the hidden atrium, and the 40-meter object 40:04 Orichalcum, electrum, and the circle of gold 48:13 Boreholes, nano-drones, and a moon base in the desert 55:48 Giza's blue shaft, Schumann resonance, and cosmic rays Then the trouble started. The team published, presented the work to the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and drew UNESCO interest in world heritage status. Ghent University filled a hall with 600 people. The story ran on front pages across Europe, the Belgian king showed a magazine cover to Mubarak's wife in Cairo, and days later Egypt's National Research Institute called Louis and asked him to pull the paper from the journal. Colleagues there were being threatened. The institute sits inside the military complex, so the find was treated as a national security breach, and Louis went onto a blacklist that kept him out of the country. He walks Danny through the rest of it. Satellite scans in 2014 and 2015 mapped four levels down to roughly 100 meters, including a chamber 100 meters long by 40 wide carved out of bedrock, Persian tomb shafts, a moat shaped like an omega, and a freestanding metallic object about 40 meters across sitting in a central atrium, held under NDAs for a decade. He explains the canal Linant de Bellefonds cut straight at the pyramid in 1820, which put the entrance under water for a century. He covers the sacred crocodiles and the priests who kept Herodotus out of the lower levels, and the circle of gold used to calculate cataclysms on a 25,920-year cycle. Egypt drained the site and started digging in March. Louis says the excavation is still shallow, and the question he cannot answer is whether anyone will be allowed past minus 20 meters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices